Tainan

Tainan (Chinese: 台南; Hanyu pinyin : Táinán ) is a town of Taiwan.

The town of Tainan this locates at the south-west of Taiwan. In May 2004, the city counted: 751902 inhabitants.

The mayor of the city east Hsu Silvering-Tsair.

Tainan extends on a surface from 175,64 km ² and has one population density of: 4281 inhabitants with the square kilometer.

Tainan is famous for its many temples and the richness of its local kitchen.

Districts

The city of Tainan is divided into six districts: Anping, Annan, and the districts East, central, Southern and Northern West.

The district of Annan constituted in the beginning the town of Year-Shun which was amalgamated with the town of Tainan in 1946. The districts exchange and West were amalgamated in 2004 to become the central Western district.

Transport

Airport

The Aéroport of Tainan is the third domestic airport of Taiwan after those of Taipei Songshan and Kaohsiung. The tracks are divided with the military air base which shelters a squadron of hunters Ching-Kuo.

History

Tainan is regarded as one of the oldest cities of Taiwan. Its history began with the establishment from a Dutch port with Tayoan (source of the name of Taiwan and now called Anping) in 1624.

In 1661 Koxinga took again the control of the island and made of Tainan the capital of Taiwan. In 1684, the Dynastie Qing undertook the conquest of the island and establishes in Tainan the Taiwan Fu (government of Taiwan) which was the first official local government of Taiwan. When the island became a province in 1885, it was famous Tainan Fu . Tainan was also called Fu-Cheng (“quoted of the government”).

Principal monuments

Turn of Chikan (赤崁樓)
official Temple of God of the war
Temple Matsu
Temple of the Furnace bridge of the paradise
Temple of Confucius (孔子廟)
Large Southern Door
Temple Wufei

Famous people born in Tainan

Ang Lee (李安), director
Dog-Ming Wang (王建民), pitcher for the New York Yankees
Wu Hui Ju (吳蕙如), archer and member of the Olympic team which gained the bronze medal with the Olympic Games of 2004
Chin-Feng Chen (陳金鋒), first Taiwanese to be played in the Major League Baseball

Twinnings

Monterey, the United States (1965)
Gwangju, South Korea (1968)
San Jose, California, the United States (1977)
Kansas City, Missouri, the United States (1987)
Pasay City, Filipino (1980)
Surges City, Filipino (1980)
Tagaytay City, Filipino (1980)
Trece Martires, Filipino (1980)
Columbus, Ohio , the United States (1980)
Jinmen, Taiwan (1981)
Santa Cruz of the Sierra, Bolivia (1981)
Port Elizabeth, South Africa (1982)
Orlando, Florida, E. - U. (1982)
Gold Coast, Australia (1982)
Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, the United States (1983)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the United States (1986)
Huntsville, Alabama, the United States (1986)
Carbondale, Illinois, the United States (1991)
Leuwen, Belgium (1993)
Ra' anana, Israel (1999)
Zacapa, Guatemala (2003)
Elblag, Poland (2004)
Ribe, Denmark (2005)
Keçiören, Turkey (2005)
Cagayan de Oro City, Filipino (2005)

External bonds

Turn of Chikan

Simple: Tainan City Simple: Tainan County Zh-classical: 臺南市 Zh-Cn: 台南市 Zh-min-nan: Tâi-lâm-chhī Zh-tw: 台南市 Zh-yue: 台南市

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